"Take good care of yourself,my darling,not just for your own sake,but for mine also," wrote(1)anan unknown serviceman stationed in the Waziristan region.
The letter is one of the 717 that were never delivered by the ship,the SS Gairsoppa,which(2)was destroyedwas destroyed(destroy) off the coast of Ireland by a German U-boat on February 16th,1941.Of the 86 crew members(3)onon board,only one survived.
With a(4)handfulhandful(hand) of the more complete letters displayed in an exhibition at the Postal Museum in London in 2018,the museum has been working on the more damaged letters intending(5)to exposeto expose(expose) wartime lives.
Two other letters are from a father to his children in Torquay,(6)andand the museum believes they may have escaped.The father wrote, "Mummy will send you back to Wycombe sooner or later.Meanwhile we all have to make the (7)bestbest(good) of things as they are:the war has upset most people's dreams and (8)modesmodes (mode) of living including mine!"
"It feels somewhat mournful and appropriate to unite these letters on the(9)eightietheightieth(eighty)anniversary of the ship's sinking," said conservator Jackie Coppen. "It is inevitable that while(10)piecingpiecing(piece) the letters together I have come to form a close relationship with them."
【考點(diǎn)】自然科學(xué)研究成果;日常生活.
【答案】an;was destroyed;on;handful;to expose;and;best;modes;eightieth;piecing
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